Showing up to Melbourne with a plain Jane top is like Lady Gaga walking down the red carpet wearing J. Crew.

Glenn Close turned heads at the Golden Globes last year when she arrived on the red carpet wearing her own dress rather than a designer freebie.

We are thinking of the time that David Dinkins stood on what appeared to be a flying carpet, wearing Arabian headgear and lip-synching "It's a Whole New World."

Prada was hardly an obscure label when Uma Thurman turned up on the red carpet one year wearing one of its lilac-colored designs.

He ambles up the red carpet wearing the white suit of a cinematic paladin, the Sir Gallahad of Beverly Hills.

Speaking of T-shirts again, PETER PASCO, who has a relatively minor role in the movie, appeared on the carpet wearing a "Free Katie" shirt, referring to KATIE HOLMES, who as everyone knows was recently engaged to Scientology.

And - lucky you - chances are she has already been photographed on the red carpet wearing some fashion hits and misses.

"I've seen guys on the red carpet wearing flip-flops," said Vivian Turner, a celebrity stylist who has helped dress famous names like Sharon Stone, Lionel Richie and Geena Davis.

She has a fine painting of a white mutt sitting on an Oriental carpet wearing a pink bow.

She appeared on the red carpet wearing a blue and teal patterned, multi-tiered mini-dress designed by Manish Arora, that "both embraced and accentuated her full-bodied shape" and on stage wearing a polka-dot dress ensemble designed by Henry Holland.